After Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish 1568 - 1625) After Flowers in a Wooden Vessel
Artist: After Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish 1568 - 1625).
Title: After Flowers in a Wooden Vessel.
Medium: Giclée Fine Art Print on Ilford Galerie Textured Cotton Rag 310gsm paper.
Sheet Size: Height 52.7 cm x Width 42 cm.
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About the Artist: Jan Brueghel the Elder was born the son of eminent Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder in Brussels in 1568. He is considered to be one of the leading Flemish painters of the first three decades of the 17th century. He is recorded to have studied an apprenticeship in Antwerp under Pieter Goetkint and to also have visited Cologne during his formative training.
From 1589 to 1596 he worked throughout Italy, though mainly in Milan, Naples and Rome. Whilst working in Milan Brueghel would be introduced to one of the most important patrons in his career, Cardinal Federico Borromeo, who would remain a lifelong friend as well as a source of important commissions. Brueghel later arrived back in Antwerp, where he would become a Master in the Guild of St. Luke by 1597. Following a brief period in Prague in 1604 at the court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, Brueghel would go on to serve as the court painter to Archduke Albert of Austria who “Flowers in a Wooden Vessel” was created. By 1606 he was the court painter to Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain in Brussels. Brueghel also worked with other artists, notably Peter Paul Rubens, who would go on to paint the acclaimed portrait of Brueghel’s own family around 1613–1615 which is now held by the Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London.
Jan Brueghel the Elder was famously a painter of landscapes and figures (on a modest scale) along with impressive still lives of flowers that would encapsulate the viewer and engage them on both an ascetic and symbolic plane.
About the Painting: “Flowers in a Wooden Vessel” was painted for Archduke Albert VII between 1606 and 1607. The intricate Still Life later became one of the most revered floral works in European art history. The work is often viewed allegorically or as a representation of eternal spring (optimism).
Our Giclée Fine Art Prints: Printed on Ilford Galerie Textured Cotton Rag 310gsm paper, this print has been selectively enhanced and cropped from high-resolution photography to produce a unique and contemporary perspective of Jan Brueghel the Elder’s “Flowers in a Wooden Vessel”. Each Giclée Fine Art Print is supplied unframed so that you can add the frame of your choice.